Dave Scepter Posted April 3 Posted April 3 (edited) 1 hour ago, HSB0531 said: Mike Shishkov in Ooooo~ what's that?.. kinda reminds me of Rob Cavestany's signature Jackson 😍 Edited April 3 by Dave Scepter Quote
burningyen Posted April 3 Posted April 3 4 hours ago, HSB0531 said: Stacked Purfling P-90 Korina Artist in Jazzburst Whoa. 6 Quote
burningyen Posted April 3 Posted April 3 2 hours ago, bruce919 said: That is the Tortoise Watson in Progress. Whoa. 1 Quote
HSB0531 Posted April 3 Posted April 3 18 hours ago, veatch said: That was moozak's originally. Not sure if he still has it. That was a righteous guitar. That one was an incredible display of all the options available, all the hard work, the skillset from everyone there, and the attention to the most finite of details. 1 Quote
HSB0531 Posted April 3 Posted April 3 Mike Shishkov in the Shop Part 2 - Paging Glenn Tipton....Paging Glenn Tipton 9 1 Quote
HSB0531 Posted April 3 Posted April 3 9 hours ago, veatch said: That was (and still is) mine. Still kicking butt, in spite of my meager skills. Did you think of the stacked binding, because I don't think anyone has ever done that before. Must have added serious $$$$ to the C/O. Quote
RobB Posted April 3 Posted April 3 As a guitar designer, Tipton is a great guitar player. Blecccch!! 2 3 Quote
veatch Posted April 4 Posted April 4 (edited) 3 hours ago, HSB0531 said: Did you think of the stacked binding, because I don't think anyone has ever done that before. Must have added serious $$$$ to the C/O. Yes, it was my idea. I thought tort binding would blend really nicely with jazzburst, but I wanted both the top and side with a multi-ply to make it pop a bit. I explained it to BCR Greg, and he knew exactly what we needed. I had never heard of "stacked purfling" before, but I had seen acoustics with it before. Greg worked some magic with the shop to get this done. The anniversary inlays were a tough sell, and note that the f-hole has the binding stacked as well. I still have no idea how they did that. Edited April 4 by veatch 10 Quote
HSB0531 Posted April 4 Posted April 4 20 hours ago, veatch said: Yes, it was my idea. I thought tort binding would blend really nicely with jazzburst, but I wanted both the top and side with a multi-ply to make it pop a bit. I explained it to BCR Greg, and he knew exactly what we needed. I had never heard of "stacked purfling" before, but I had seen acoustics with it before. Greg worked some magic with the shop to get this done. The anniversary inlays were a tough sell, and note that the f-hole has the binding stacked as well. I still have no idea how they did that. It's truly an amazing build. And yes, I noticed that they did it to the f-hole as well, which must have been incredibly tedious and hard to do. It's something you'd expect from the late great John D'Angelico 5 Quote
Cboss Posted April 5 Posted April 5 On 4/3/2025 at 6:06 PM, HSB0531 said: Mike Shishkov in the Shop Part 2 - Paging Glenn Tipton....Paging Glenn Tipton Wonder what happened to this one? I think it's really sweet! Quote
HSB0531 Posted April 5 Posted April 5 14 hours ago, Cboss said: Wonder what happened to this one? I think it's really sweet! That one was a C/O for Glenn Tipton. See my next post for more info. Quote
HSB0531 Posted April 5 Posted April 5 Paging Glenn Tipton....Paging Glenn Tipton Part 3 With Commentary by Jol Dantzig June 30, 2008 Judas Priest in the Workshop ( Commentary By Jol Dantzig / Taken from the Hamer Workshop Blog ) With all the projects that we have going on at any given time, it's hard to spotlight all of them here. After all, we're guitar builders not webmasters. Here's one job that's been in the shop for a while. It's no secret that we've worked closely with the boys in Judas Priest for over two decades; every album and tour since 1984 has bristled with Hamer-tone. Since one of our readers asked, I'm going to jump the gun on a special post series that we've been holding close to our chest. Back in the day... Glenn Tipton and Jol Dantzig in the studio during the recording of Judas Priest's "Turbo" album After talking to Glenn Tipton over the course of a few weeks, and receiving the basic idea for his new guitar, Dave set to work building a mahogany neck with a curly maple fingerboard. We've elected to use the old "six on a side" Hamer headstock shape, because it matches Glenn's other Hamers, and goes more with the feel of this guitar. The scale is 24.75" and it calls for block inlays. We selected some nice chunks of "black" pearl and cut them into rectangles. Here, Tom has routed the pockets for the pearl and is gluing them in. Then, based on the outline provided by Glenn, Mike starts to rough out the body from a mahogany blank. In this photo he's placed the neck over the body to get the cutaway, pickup and bridge locations locked in. We've collected all the parts we need, including a NOS (new old stock) original Kahler from the '80s. Mike will create templates for routing, and then do the pocketing on the pin router. There's a few bumps in the road, but we always figure it out in the end. Stay tuned for more... July 09, 2008 Blending Glenn Tipton's Neck At this point in the build, Mike and I were talking about the positioning of the controls on the body of Glenn Tipton's guitar, and we needed some clarification from the client. Glenn's original plan was for both a volume and a tone control, along with a three-way toggle. The last drawing we had showed only a single volume and a toggle, so we had to make a decision. Rather than guess, I got on the cell and called Glenn on his. Sure enough, the last drawing was correct, so we could proceed with one control hole. I rang off with Glenn and we marked the locations immediately. A few hours later, Mike has cut the neck pocket and fitted the neck to the body of the guitar. He's added the bevels on the body, and now it's time to do the neck blending. The first step is to draw out the blend line on the instrument. The idea here is to provide good hand access, retain the maximum amount of joint for good energy transfer and create a pleasing visual transition. After Mike and I take a couple swipes at it we get a good line, so it's time to park the guitar in a vise and get after it with a pneumatic drum sander. The grit is very coarse, so Mike takes it easy, just hogging off the major real estate. In this photo you can see the wood flying off the sander past Mike's shirt—always wear eye protection! After the sander, Mike does the final smoothing with a file and then with sandpaper. After about an hour, it's looking good. Glenn was stoked about the progress, and said that he was on his way to a photo shoot with his vintage Hamer Phantom GT. At this rate, the guitar will be in the paint booth soon. We'll come back to this project then. August 12, 2008 More Glenn Tipton Guitar Progress A lot has happened with Glenn's guitar in the last few weeks, so we'll try to catch up. We decided to keep the traditional "GT" headstock on this model, and because Glenn wanted bevels on the body we thought that the headstock should echo that too. After Mike sketched the first draft, I put a logo overlay on the headstock to see how the whole thing would look. When we saw the overall effect, I thought that the bevel was too large. It really dominated the headstock as opposed to being a flourish like the ones on the body; so we reduced the mass of the bevel to suit the overall theme. It's important to think of the instrument as a whole rather than a collection of individual design ideas because no matter how much you like them all, if they don't work together the design fails. Satisfied that we'd balanced things out, Mike proceeded with the woodworking using a sander, file and a scraper. Then it's just a matter of prepping for the paint room where we'll pick it up next time. October 03, 2008 Glenn Tipton Guitar Update It has been a while since we've showed any of the Tipton progress, so here's a little update. Glenn wanted an off-white color so Gary sprayed out a white base coat on the guitar first. Then he mixed and shot two slightly shaded variations using our variant system tints. I emailed this exact photo to Glenn on the road to get his feedback. Usually, we send the actual samples to our customers along with a form to sign for approval, but in this case it wasn't practical. We'll have to live with the color shift from the video monitor. Glenn liked the yellower version to the left, so Gary went ahead and sprayed out the guitar. Glenn also suggested that we put a sightly contrasting color on the bevels to make them stand out. I suggested that perhaps we didn't want it to be overtly noticeable, just enough to give the guitar depth under the lights, and he agreed. Gary had the idea to use a little shaded pearl tint powder, so we went with that. I think it's looking good—slightly different for Mr. Tipton, but cool nonetheless. Here's the headstock. 4 1 Quote
Dave Scepter Posted April 5 Posted April 5 On 4/3/2025 at 4:06 PM, HSB0531 said: I wasn't too far off~😋 Quote
HSB0531 Posted April 5 Posted April 5 7 minutes ago, Dave Scepter said: I wasn't too far off~😋 It looks like Jackson copied it. 1 Quote
HSB0531 Posted April 5 Posted April 5 (edited) On 4/3/2025 at 9:05 AM, stratacus said: The last time I saw the Nightfire Tally change hands on the HFC, @trashedman came up the winner. Epic custom order. The Nightfire C/O was placed by Moozak at BCR Music. Edited April 6 by HSB0531 Quote
Disturber Posted April 6 Posted April 6 23 hours ago, HSB0531 said: Paging Glenn Tipton....Paging Glenn Tipton Part 3 With Commentary by Jol Dantzig October 03, 2008 Glenn Tipton Guitar Update I think it's looking good—slightly different for Mr. Tipton, but cool nonetheless. Anyone seen any live pics, or other photos, of Mr Tipton and this here guitar? Quote
Dave Scepter Posted April 6 Posted April 6 12 minutes ago, Disturber said: Anyone seen any live pics, or other photos, of Mr Tipton and this here guitar? I've searched but couldn't find any~ 1 Quote
HSB0531 Posted April 6 Posted April 6 (edited) 1 hour ago, Disturber said: Anyone seen any live pics, or other photos, of Mr Tipton and this here guitar? I haven't, but there might be a YouTube video of GT where he's showing his guitars. I'll search around. Here's a link with a snapshot of it at the top middle right of the page: https://www.glenntipton.com/guitar-collection.asp Edited April 6 by HSB0531 1 Quote
HSB0531 Posted April 6 Posted April 6 1 hour ago, Dave Scepter said: There it is~ ^^^ Yep, that one ^^^ 1 Quote
HSB0531 Posted April 6 Posted April 6 On 4/3/2025 at 1:15 PM, burningyen said: Whoa. Damn Nice, both of them Quote
diablo175 Posted April 6 Posted April 6 Holy SHIT! This is the most amazing collection of Hamer employee & build photos I've EVER seen! Thank you!!! 1 Quote
Disturber Posted April 6 Posted April 6 2 hours ago, HSB0531 said: ^^^ Yep, that one ^^^ I wonder why he has not used it live, at lest not any pics of it. I searched too. Quote
HSB0531 Posted April 6 Posted April 6 1 hour ago, Disturber said: I wonder why he has not used it live, at lest not any pics of it. I searched too. 1 hour ago, Disturber said: I wonder why he has not used it live, at lest not any pics of it. I searched too. I know KK has health problems, but GT might also have them and isn't touring?? 1 Quote
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